Are my PC Specs enough to play smoothly?

[Casino]

gabbie your system is getting a bit dated. i'd expect low settings to be okay especially at your res. unfortunately there is no quick easy fix to your system. a better graphics card is about the only real help, but depending on what motherboard you have you might be stuck with an old AGP slot. even with best in slot of everything of that platform the best you could expect would be low-medium settings, although at that low of a resolution you could probably get medium to stick, but only with a top end card.

its hard seeing people with really decent rigs being told low-medium is the best they can expect, but aion will be a very demanding game to run with max settings.

[Kalean]

Aion will take some graphical power if you want high settings across the board. It'll still be pretty, you juts have to make sure not to go crazy on AA/AF....But in regards to Gabbie's system, yea...Even if she gets a high end card, she'll bottleneck...She needs a new cpu as well....Which is difficult considering her system is probably a older 775 board =(.

[Riku]

Originally Posted by LethalGT

Go for a nine series card, and 4 gigs of ram.

There's no easier way to say badass.

he's running xp (32bit) it will only reconize 2G ram.

[Howling]

Originally Posted by Riku

he's running xp (32bit) it will only reconize 2G ram.

*cough* between 2.8 and 3.4gb *cough*

[Diablo]

Originally Posted by Riku

he's running xp (32bit) it will only reconize 2G ram.

My old XP 32 recognized 3GB, must have better vision.

[Gabbie]

Well, ive was planning on Upgrading my Motherboard/GfX Card for a PCI E Board. Not sure if there is a board with PCI E and all the sockets i have for my RAM CPU and what not. oh BTW.. He.. not she =P (RL name Gabriel)

[Melanieshaman]

ya my budget is very low about 600 bucks (i have to have a job to afford more) LOL but i talked to computer wiz friend of mine and he said with what i have i should be fine, and he even told me to go with a SMALLER HD! said unless i dl alot of music/movies i wont need that much.

Mel

[Kalean]

Do you need to buy a operating system Melanie?....Because the system I linked in the last page for you would be a much better system then the one you had...

https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion...hListTitle=Mel

it's at 550 now without tax/shipping. But you didn't list a power supply or case in your previous part list...Do you already have those?..Do you needa os?...Cause sorry to say, the parts you had before were decent, but this setup would blow it away alone just for the fact that the graphics card is worlds above...

Btw, with your previous setup, low/medium settings depending on your resolution...

[Casino]

i see $416 in that parts list, am i missing something?

[Kalean]

It's right...I just looked at her previous parts and thought 500 dollar budget even though it wasn't stated what the budget really was. So I put together a small list, 466.94 including tax and shipping. But yea, need to know if a case/power supply is needed for that 600 dollar budget...and an OS..

Melanie, if you can toss that by..It would help...Sorry to say though, this system although similar in cpu, would blow the other one away in terms of gpu performance. The 8600GT is quite a old card, it also was heavily scrutinized on launch since the 8600Gt/GTS mid range solutions didn't offer the right performance for the money. I HEAVILY suggest you take a look at the list I posted...and consider it...

do you need a OS? Case? Power Supply? you didn't mention if you did.

[Zoned87]

If you conisder an 8600GT old, my card is ancient. I personally believe anything over a 6800 shouldn't have any problems with this game...

[Zanion]

could someone list what someone need to run aion at high options ? you can write anything from power supply,graphic card,cpu......(including price).



it would be really helpfull

[Skold]

still really hard to say... but its safe to assume a 2.4ghz core 2 and a 8800 GT will be sufficient

[Riku]

something like this would do you just fine Newegg.com - iBUYPOWER Gamer 900EE Core 2 Quad Q6600(2.40GHz) 4GB DDR2 500GB NVIDIA GeForce 7050 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit - Desktop PCs , but you would need to up grade the videocard and PSU. Note: this mobo is EVGA and has older GeForce 7050 chipset. I prefer to marry intel cpu with a mobo that has intel chipset...i.e. p35 and up.

Or go this route :
Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards , < $90.00
Newegg.com - mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory , < $75.00
Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor - CPUs / Processors , < $210.00
Newegg.com - OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V Power Supply 100 - 240 V - Power Supplies , < $90.00
Newegg.com - XFX PVT88PYDF4 GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards , <<$150.00
Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 RC-590-KKN1-GP Black SECC / ABS ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases. <$65.00

All parts for a total of : $680.00 not too bad of a price for a kick a$$ system.

You will have to buy your own hard drives, there cheap now days....i prefer this company Newegg.com - HITACHI Deskstar E7K500 HDS725050KLA360 (0A31619) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives < $140.00
If you want to spend less on a hard drive then go with this and add another one later Newegg.com - HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 HDP725025GLA380 (0A35399) 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives <$62.00

[Draca]

His computer will do just fine on low setttings even on crysis if he gets a Geforce 7600 series or coreponding ATI card.


Which made me wonder do your moderboard have a AGP or a PCI-e slot for the vid card?
If u don't know how old is the board?


for thoose that's looking for a totaly new computer then theese are the fastest for cost today:

cpu: intel core duo 8400 "wolfdale"
video card: Geforce 8800GT
moderboard: intel x38 or p35(older and cheaper version of x38) chipset
memory: 2x2GB/800Mhz sticks

*edit* thumb rule to consider if your computer runs Far cry on avange settings Aion shouldn't be a problem.